FrançaisConference : The contradictions of the globalisation of the publishing industry
ASYMMETRICAL RELATIONSHIPS IN LITERATURE.
THE FRENCH-FINNISH CASE BETWEEN 1951 AND 2000
Author/s : Yves Gambier
The French and Finnish literary systems have a different history. And within each system, the position of translation is different.
Our investigation is two-fold: - How has the French-speaking literature (621 titles from France) been accepted and distributed after the second World War in Finland? - How has the Finnish literature (in Finnish and in Swedish), namely 116 books, been edited and distributed in France between 1980 and 2000?
In this double perspective, different issues will be raised regarding publishing houses, official publishing policies, the influence of literary Awards, categories of writers and genres, the role of translators, etc. Statistics, comparisons, and analyses of the periods of time between originals and translations will be used. In addition, four French publishers and the Head of the Finnish Literature Society will be interviewed, the meta discourse of the literary agents being devious.
The paper is based on the polysystemic approach and some of Bourdieu’s ideas on polarizations of the editorial field. It also results from a bibliographical work started in 1997 about the literary exchanges between France and Finland.
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